BY BTL STAFF Australia - Australia's bid to hold a national vote on whether to legalize same-sex marriage was defeated on Nov. 7 in the upper house of parliament, or Senate, potentially delaying legal unions [...]
Peter Tatchell with Sir Ian McKellen. #tatchellmovie An interview with Chris Amos, director of the upcoming documentary "Hating Peter Tatchell." First of all, why do you feel it's so important to make this film? [...]
By TJ Rogers Last Thursday, Aug. 4, in the midst of the "Mr. and Ms. Pride" event of Pride Uganda 2016, police raided Venom nightclub and arrested at least 15 attendees, including two prominent international [...]
From Press Release The United Nations Human Rights Council announced the creation of the first-ever UN position dedicated to combating violence and discrimination against LGBTQ people worldwide today. The effort to establish the independent expert [...]
From Press Release June 24, 2016 ILGA-Europe have always strongly believed in the power of activists and allies to work together for a common goal, namely to improve life for LGBTI people across Europe. Over [...]
Liz Baudler BANGLADESH - The National Gay Media Association April 27 joins with the world community in condemning the senseless and brutal killing April 26 of Xulhaz Mannan, the editor of Roopbaan, an LGBTI publication [...]
Russia's lower house of parliament has rejected draft legislation that called for fines and arrests of people who publicly express their homosexuality. The so-called "coming out" bill, initiated by lawmakers from the Communist Party, called [...]
BY BTL STAFF WASHINGTON, DC - The Williams Institute and NORC at the University of Chicago surveyed countries from around the world and found that acceptance of homosexuality has risen over the past 20 years [...]
BTL STAFF San Francisco The National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) announced the formation of the #BornPerfect Advisory Committee , a group of conversion therapy survivors, child welfare and mental health experts, and faith leaders [...]
BTL Staff KINGSTON, JAMAICA - Young Jamaican gay rights activist who brought a legal challenged to the Caribbean island's anti-sodomy law has withdrawn the claim after multiple threats and violent backlashes, advocacy groups and colleagues [...]
BTL Staff ENGLAND - The Queen of England herself, Queen Elizabeth II granted a Royal pardon for internationally acclaimed British codebreaker and computer scientist Alan Turing. Turing took his own life in 1954 after being [...]
BTL Staff ENGLAND - Members of the longest running soap opera, Coronation Street, a British soap opera about the working class residents of the self titled street, have come out in support of the LGBT [...]
BTL Staff BERLIN - After more than 13 years in office, Klaus Wowereit announced he will be resigning on Dec. 11 of this year. He is Berlin's first openly gay mayor and helped turn the [...]
RUSSIA - Alina Davis, 23, and Allison Brooks, 19, were both donning wedding dresses when they walked into the Moscow registry office asking for a marriage license. Davis describes herself as androgyne, not fitting into [...]
BTL Staff LONDON - Researchers at King's College London are studying how stigma and discrimination contribute to mental health issues amongst those within the LGBT community. LGBT people are 1.5 times more likely to suffer [...]
By BTL Staff A new documentary, "The Bears of Beirut," is part of a new Indiegogo campaign focusing on the lives of gay refugees from Syria on route to Lebanon and the two gay men [...]
By AJ Trager NATIONAL - Aside from defeating Lord Voldemort and restoring peace to the world, Harry Potter is also helping to reduce prejudice and bigotry against the LGBT and immigrant communities. In a recent [...]
AP Ugandan citizens celebrate gay pride 2014 UGANDA - A Ugandan court on Friday [Aug 1] invalidated an anti-gay bill signed into law earlier this year, saying the measure is illegal because it was [...]
By BTL Staff Pink News reports that LGBT rights activists were attacked and told to leave a recent Toronto event held by Rob Ford. The activists had been protesting the controversial Toronto mayor's alleged homophobia. [...]
BTL Staff AUSTRALIA - A pharmaceutical company out of Melbourne has designed a gel, much like spermicide, that has been found to be 99.9 percent effective at deactivating HIV, herpes, bacterial vaginosis and HPV. This [...]
By BTL Staff Australia - UPDATE: Previous reports that "more than 100" AIDS researchers lost their lives aboard the Malaysian flight MH17, as reported by the Australian Press, have been found inaccurate. The flight crashed [...]
BTL STAFF AUSTRALIA - Children of same-sex attracted parents have above average health and wellbeing, according to University of Melbourne research published in the journal BMC Public Health. The study did warn that stigma was [...]
The Supreme Court of India ruled Tuesday, "It is the right of every human being to choose their gender" and that people of a "third gender" should be given the rights of citizens. The decision [...]
Scott Lively announcing CFV On March 14 theCenter for Constitutional Rights filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), a non-profit umbrella organization for LGBTI advocacy groups in Uganda, against Abiding [...]
By Lisa Keen Keen News Service Russian President Vladimir Putin poured fuel on the anti-gay controversy Jan. 17, saying gays visiting Russia for the Olympics can feel at ease as long as they "leave children [...]
By Lisa Keen Keen News Service The International Olympic Committee announced Tuesday that Russian authorities "plan to set up a protest zone in the city of Sochi." Concern about protests at the Olympic Winter Games [...]
Former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, the centrist candidate of the Socialist Party, finished far ahead in Sunday's presidential election, but didn't get enough votes to avoid a Dec. 15 runoff with conservative Evelyn Matthei, who [...]
By CNN Staff (CNN) - President Barack Obama met with leaders of several Russian social activist groups Friday, an event that likely touched on the sensitive subject of gay rights in the nation amid tensions [...]
(CNN) - Russia's anti-gay laws are "no problem whatsoever," according to a leading Olympic official. Lamine Diack, president of the International Association of Athletics Federations, has called for Russian law to be respected ahead of [...]
By Laura Smith-Spark CNN (CNN) - Russia will host the Winter Olympics in Sochi in six months. But what should be a good news story has instead thrust Moscow's recently passed anti-gay propaganda law into [...]
By Laura Smith-Spark CNN (CNN) - A 320,000-signature petition protesting Russia's stance on gay rights ahead of the Winter Olympics in Sochi early next year was presented to Olympic bosses in Switzerland on Wednesday. The [...]
By Laura Smith-Spark CNN (CNN) - A 320,000-signature petition protesting Russia's stance on gay rights ahead of the Winter Olympics in Sochi early next year was presented to Olympic bosses in Switzerland on August 7. [...]
From Press Release Aug. 29, 2013 WASHINGTON - Today, Human Rights Campaign President Chad Griffin sent a letter to the heads of the top sponsors of the International Olympic Committee expressing concern over the anti-LGBT [...]
Gessen is openly lesbian, an opposition journalist active in anti-Putin protests, and has a widely read book exposing Putin as a scumbag. She lives in Moscow with her partner and children. One can't help but [...]
By Laura Smith-Spark CNN (CNN) - A bill to allow same-sex marriage in England and Wales will go before the House of Commons for a final debate Tuesday, a day after the legislation cleared the [...]
By Hakim Almasmari special to CNN (CNN) - A security official in Yemen's southern Lahj province say that religious militants have shot dead a man they had accused of being gay. Witnesses said that two [...]
By BTL Staff from Press Release Eric Lembembe brutally killed this weekend (Picture: 76 Crimes blog) Eric Lembembe brutally killed this weekend (Picture: 76 Crimes blog) Prominent Cameroonian gay rights activist and Executive Director [...]
(CNN) - Germany's St. Pauli plans on further supporting the gay community by permanently flying the rainbow flag -- which symbolizes gay pride -- at its stadium from this season. "The club has been active [...]
By Josh Levs and Jessica Yellin CNN (CNN) - U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday called on countries throughout the world to decriminalize homosexuality, a day after the U.S. Supreme Court handed a major victory [...]
By Stephanie Halasz and Jessica King CNN (CNN) - A right-wing historian and author killed himself inside the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris Tuesday in front of horrified tourists, police said. About 1,500 people at [...]
By Laura Smith-Spark CNN (CNN) - Legislation to allow same-sex marriage in England and Wales won passage Tuesday in the House of Commons. The vote was 366 for, 161 against. The bill now goes to [...]
By Laura Smith-Spark CNN (CNN) - French President Francois Hollande signed into law Saturday a bill allowing same-sex couples to marry and adopt. It came a day after the nation's top court, the Constitutional Council, [...]
By Faith Karimi CNN (CNN) - Zambian police rearrested two men this week on charges of engaging in homosexual acts "against the order of nature," a rights group said. James Mwansa and Philip Mubiana, both [...]
The newspaper O Globo reported May 14 that members of the National Council of Justice that oversees Brazil's judicial system ruled 14-1 in support of nuptials for gays and lesbians. Agence France-Presse said the body [...]
On April 18 the major regional networks of men who have sex with men (MSM) and the http://www.msmgf.org Global Forum on MSM & HIV (MSMGF) announced they have joined forces to form a unified front [...]
By Kyle Almond Extending the rights to marry and adopt to same-sex couples in France was one of President Francois Hollande's electoral pledges in campaigning last year. He is seen above during his installation ceremony [...]
By Monica Attard SYDNEY, Australia (CNN) - The competitive spirit between Australia and New Zealand rarely dims, but New Zealand has sprinted ahead of its trans-Tasman rival to become the first country in the Asia [...]
By Kyle Almond In 2001 the Netherlands was the first European country to legalize same-sex marriage. Reporter Rex Wockner covered the event live for the regional LGBT media. (CNN) - It's not just the [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. - On April 8 the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced a new LGBT Global Development Partnership, a public-private partnership between the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), the Astraea Lesbian Foundation [...]
By Laura Smith-Spark Extending the rights to marry and adopt to same-sex couples in France was one of President Francois Hollande's electoral pledges in campaigning last year. He is seen above during his installation ceremony [...]
